People have limited time in their lives. If you want to recruit volunteers to your open source project it has to be in a language they either already know or ar

People have limited time in their lives. If you want to recruit volunteers to your open source project it has to be in a language they either already know or are interested in learning. It may not be “hard” to learn Clojure, but the potential contributor may consider the time and mental energy spent fumbling around frustrated with all the off-putting sigils and different brackets to be better used learning a language with brighter prospects.